GE Renewable Energy to supply wind turbines for 70MW Guney wind farm in Turkey

• 4 years ago (2020-03-10)
• David Flin

Europe 1061 Wind 239

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GE Renewable Energy has announced that it has been selected by Sanko Enerji to provide 12 Cypress units and 2 units of 3MW for the 70MW Guney wind farm in Turkey. The wind farm will save about 200,000 tons of CO2 and support Turkey’s renewable energy objective to power two-thirds of the country with renewable energy.

Located in Bursa, the construction and commercial operation of the wind farm is planned to be in the last quarter of 2020. GE’s scope of work will also include 10-year service agreements.

Guney is the second onshore wind project Sanko Enerji and GE Renewable Energy will be building together. This is the third order in Turkey for GE’s Cypress platform, the company’s largest onshore wind turbine in the field, and adds to the 1.2GW of wind energy installed base and 500 wind turbines GE has already built in Turkey.

GE Renewable Energy will locally produce the two-piece wind turbine blades in its LM Wind Power’s Bergama site at Izmir, Turkey.

The Cypress technology enables significant Annual Energy Production improvements, increased efficiency in serviceability, and improved logistics and siting potential. The two-piece blade design enables blades to be manufactured at even longer lengths, improving logistics to drive costs down and offer more siting options, including locations that were previously inaccessible.